Papergirl wrote:All females are born with a natural instinct to put significance on sex. Unfortunately, at age 8, a girl has not yet developed enough frontal lobe to weigh the options. Normally the sexual brain is dormant at that age. But YOU are triggering hers into action, and her conscious brain has no way to moderate the impulses. Your niece is becoming sexual. You can tell because she did what you asked about exposing her "private part". And she told you she likes to dress "fashionable". She likely doesn't know the difference between "fashionable" and "sexual". She can sense your excitement over her sexual power, and she likes that feeling of power. At that age, a girl's sexual instincts, once triggered, are selfish and have no "off" switch.
Papergirl, I've never heard it put this way. Actually, I don't think I've ever heard that at all. And it makes perfect sense to me.
It's what I see as, I think I see a young girl who wants it, but what I am actually seeing is exactly as you described it. She senses my excitement or the attention that she gets, and she takes that power and likes it. But it's not a sexual power, it's the attention she gets. I perceive it as sexual, she doesn't .
Now as far as my opinion on the OP's statement that he's taken pics and perhaps sexualized his niece, I'd run! I'd run far and fast! It's already a line crossed from "I would love to see her naked", to " I can't believe I just did what I did". Do not tell anyone else, do not tell your family. If you need to get it out there, do so to a counselor and be extremely vague about who, what, where & when. I say this because I personally made a similar mistake. It was a millisecond of a bad idea and began the destruction of what is my life. This bad decision went away for almost 5 years. I thought it was gone. But those years later, my victim mentioned it to a school counselor. I begged for 'inappropriate contact with a minor', it seems in the US that's the same thing as 'child molestation 1°'. I got off with a suspended sentence and SSOSA treatment program. And a life-long registration.
My intention is to tell you what could happen. I hope that for you, and anyone else who has made a quick, stupid indecision chalk it down as that, a stupid thing done. I truly hope that nothing else ever comes from it.
If you, or anyone else has questions about my past, PM me.
To the OP, good luck to you!